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For the first time all season Lady Tiger head coach Donnita Rogers started Markisha Patterson, Brittney Allen, Jasher Blocker, and Tonishea Mack all in the same game, for it would be their last time stepping foot in the Fred Hobdy Assembly Center as a player. The final home game for the Lady Tigers (13-13, 9-7 SWAC) 2011-2012 season concluded with [...]

Judge Glenda Hatchett will be speaking at Grambling State University next week in honor of Black History Month. Hatchett, a best-selling author and presiding judge of the television program “Judge Hatchett,” will be the guest lecturer at GSU’s Black History Convocation, which takes place at 11 a.m. Monday in the T. H. Harris Auditorium. Hatchett became Georgia’s first African-American chief [...]

11 players and coaches were inducted into the Black College Hall of Fame this past Saturday. The list of inductess include 9 time Pro Bowler Harry Carson of South Carolina State University and former NFL MVP Steve McNair of Alcorn State University. The entire list of the 2012 class is listed below: Cleve Abbott, Head Coach, Tennessee State University Willie [...]

Entertainer Whitney Houston, who died Saturday, was the speaker at Grambling State University’s commencement in the summer of 1988 and received one of the university’s highest honors, the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. “The Grambling State University Family, like others across the world, was saddened to hear the news of a fallen alumnus,” officials said in a news release. “Our [...]

The department of mass communication at Grambling State University is in rarefied company, being the smallest program in the country selected for the $50,000 Reynolds Foundation Visiting Business Journalism Professor Program grant. The grant proposal was submitted by Martin Edu, chairman of the department. Other journalism programs whose grant proposals were also selected included Colorado State University, Texas Christian University [...]

“We beat our selves every single time,” said Tigers head coach Bobby Washington. After failing to convert on an alley oop at the buzzer Monday night, the Grambling State (3-18, 3-8 SWAC) Tigers dropped their third straight game in a 57-55 loss to Alcorn State (7-16, 4-7 SWAC), despite getting double-digits from three players other than Quincy Roberts. GSU has [...]

In a recent Sonshiver interview with founder of The Coup, Boots Riley, the Oakland, California veteran emcee revealed a little-known collaboration between one of his most successful Bay area peers and a would-be Grammy Award-winning Soul singer. “E-40 and Erykah Badu made songs together in college; they both went to Grambling [State University] together. It’s not that the stories people [...]

Grambling State’s freshman duo led the way Monday night,and the Lady Tigers’ second half offensive woes are seemingly over. “That’s what we’re working on, being able to finish,” said head coach Donita Rogers. “You also have to look at [the fact that] we’re still starting two freshman in Savannah Carter and Cierra Ceazer. The Lady Tigers outscored the Lady Braves [...]

HBCUBuzz’s Kev Keise sits down with Grambling State University football coach Doug Williams, the first African-American to start and win a Super Bowl.

GRAMBLING, LA– After interviewing seven finalists recommended by a search committee, President Frank G. Pogue announced this week that Dr. Percy “Chico” Caldwell will assume the position of Athletic Director at Grambling State University, pending approval by the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors.   More than 50 applications were received. “One of the difficult decisions was narrowing this extensive [...]

This spring, two deserving Grambling and Southern University students in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) program will each be awarded a $3,000 scholarship from CH2M HILL. The scholarship checks were presented by CH2M HILL Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, Howlie Davis, to the Presidents of Southern University and Grambling State during the Bayou Classic football game. CH2M [...]

  Alabama State 66, Texas Southern 59 (OT) MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Ivory White scored 21 points and Phillip Crawford added 17 as Alabama State rallied to beat Texas Southern in overtime on Monday night, snapping a three-game losing streak. Texas Southern entered halftime leading 32-18 and pushed that lead to 48-30 behind five straight points from Fred Sturdivant. However, Alabama [...]

Today kicks off an exciting day of hoops in the Southwestern Athletic Conference with five games scheduled. Starting At 4 P.M. the two schools in Alabama will leave their homes and take part in tough road conference games. The Alabama A&M Bulldogs (1-4, 3-11 SWAC) travel to the Clark Center in Baton Rouge to take on the Southern University Jaguars (8-11, 4-2 SWAC).  [...]

Quincy Roberts has come over to the SWAC from the Big East and brought his game to the big stage at Grambling State University. In his first three games of conference play, Roberts leads the SWAC in scoring with a 27.67 points per game average while shooting 50% from the field and pulling down 6.7 rebounds. Despite the Alabama St. Hornets spoiling the Tigers’ conference [...]

The Urban Invitational, the annual, round-robin collegiate baseball tournament designed to give Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their baseball programs national exposure, is relocating to Houston, Texas and will feature five HBCUs – the most-ever in the tournament’s five-year history. The Houston Astros MLB Urban Youth Academy at Sylvester Turner Park will be the primary site of the [...]

Grambling State University, along with other public higher education institutions, was notified that Governor Bobby Jindal had imposed a Mid-Year budget cut. Governor Jindal had delivered the commencement speech for GSU graduates in spring 2009 on May 16. Jindal did not receive a support of praise from the parents, students, graduates or administration during or after his speech. In 2009 [...]

Quincy Roberts finished with 21 points and eight rebounds to lead the Grambling State Tigers to their first win of the season as they edged out Alabama A&M 60-55. The game came down to the wire and clutch free throws by the Tigers (1-11) secured their victory. In the final minute collectively, Roberts, Brandon Dorsett, Bryant Purvis and David Copeland  [...]

The Alabama State Hornets will begin their 2011-2012 SWAC conference play the same way they ended it, playing their SWAC rival Grambling State. Conference play begins on Jan. 3 in the SWAC and the winless Tigers of Grambling State will have an opportunity to capture their first win Tuesday night at home against the Alabama State Hornets. The game that will [...]